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RV owners will travel more in 1975 Rickey J. Keller of Rio Medina shot this 14-point buck in Dimmit County. The buck had a antler spread and field dressed 1 25 pounds. )utdloors Dan How not to end a hunting season There are a lot of ways to wind up a hunting season, and a preferred one is not with your head stuck under the hood of a sick vehicle. This is particularly true when the vehicle gets sick on a Sunday morning when the fog is so thick a bullfrog know which way to jump, when the hills are so slick the bullfrog get enough traction to jump in any direction and when the nearest town and vehicle physician is 15 foggy and muddy miles away.

This is even more true when the vehicle have fallen ill in the first place, because you had just gotten it out of the shop a few days earlier. But the way I finished the season. The family and 1 were hunting in Sabinal Canyon as guests of Kenneth Leighton on a rugged section of hills and hollows at the end of the road. The hills are beautiful even when shrouded by fog. A hunter can walk the hollows quietly in wet leaves shed by the oak and maple.

He can follow fresh tracks in the soggy ground, and with the ridges and hilltops obliterated from view, each canyon becomes a world within itself. Some members of the family hunted. They sat on stands and watched the hollows, and one, my oldest daughter, Connie, killed two bucks. I did a little hunting and a little fishing and had intended to do a lot more of the latter when the Blazer began acting like a spavined mule. Fishing afternoon ruined It coughed and stuttered and backfired and got progressively worse as the day wore on.

I kept hoping the trouble was a temporary virus and that it would get well all by itself, especially since know as much about building a nuclear reactor as 1 do about the workings of the internal combustion engine. Besides, there wasn't a breath of a breeze during the afternoon. and the surface of the spring-fed lake was aripple with the rises of feeding bass. The road which parallels the lake rises high on the hillside, and as the Blazer sputtered and bucked along the rocks, I glanced into the shallows below and saw a bass, a fish of about two pounds, cruising the moss beds like a hungry shark, 1 wanted to catch the fish. I knew li would take a topwater lure tied to six-pound line on an ultralight rod and reel and would fight like a roped torpedo in the cold water.

I knew, too. that something had to be done about the Blazer, even if 1 tried to do it myself. I looked at the fish through the six-power scope on a and figured I could solve my dilemma by shooting either the bass or the Blazer, maybe both. The temptation was great, but I resisted and prodded the balky Blazer into camp, raised the hood and dived in. immediately burning both hands and my left elbow.

I stretched the limits of my mechanical ability, which normally is restricted to changing a flat tire. I proceeded to turn everything that would turn on the carburetor. This made the sick engine sicker. Counting the spark plugs I counted the spark plugs. Yep! All there.

I pulled three out, gave each a stern look and replaced them. The other five Were too difficult to reach. I considered looking at the interior of the distributor but abandoned the idea. It, too, was hard to reach way in the back. Besides, 1 had just had a tuneup job on the engine.

Surely they had checked the points. A little before dark 1 gave up and drove the wheezing vehicle; to the home of the nearest neighbor, here Burch Spears offered to loan me his jeep so that I could pick up my hunters, check the filter on the carburetor and call a mechanic, David Rainey, in Utopia. That was a deal I refuse. The filter clogged and the mechanic home. We left word and waited.

He returned the call about 8 p.m. and said he would be out shortly. One can't get a doctor to make a house call in the city these days, much less a mechanic. Getting one to drive 30 miles round trip on a foggy Sunday night was unexpected, to say the least, even when Burch explained that we were hunting and needed the vehicle. But he came, started the sick engine, diagnosed the trouble almost immediately and cured it almost as fast.

He flipped the lid on the distributor, tightened the screws on the condenser, which was about to fall off; tightened the screws on the points, which were loose; and retuned the carburetor, which I had thoroughly fouled up. And the spavined mule suddenly got well. One of these days going to learn all about the automobile engine, because repairing one can be expensive. Sometimes even more than money. This case was no exception.

It cost me a chance at a two-pound bass. COURSE IN EFFECTIVE SPEAKING HUMAN RELATIONS SELF-CONFIDENCE MEMORY TRAINING SELLING YOUR IDEAS CLASS STARTING JANUARY 13 ENROLLMENT LIMITED Coll 826-8677 for information Presented by Mm Tnvette Associates Donnie Carver, left, and his son Robert of San Antonio display a nine-point, 160-pound buck taken in Webb County. The boy shot at the deer first, then his dad took over and killed it. It had a spread. Pancoast Jr.

of San Antonio shot this 22-pound gobbler north of Sabinal. The big tom had a 10-inch beard. Hydrilla found in Valley canal AUSTIN Hydrilla, a potentially devastating aquatic plant, has been identified in a Cameron County irrigation canal south of Los Fresnos in the Rio Grande Valley. Lou Guerra, chief of the Texas Parks and Wildlife noxious vegetation control program, recently made positive identification of hydrilla in the canal owned by the Cameron County Independent Water District Number Two. advised the Cameron County Water District officials to manually rake up the hydrilla if possible and dispose of the said Guerra.

this only will remove the above-ground portions of the plant. The subterranean Un ions or roots will be Irrigation canals crisscross the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and water districts regularly transfer water from one system to another. Canals from La Feria to Brownsv ille could be affected. Guerra urges all Texas water district officials, marina operators and other concerned citizens throughout the state to send small samples of what they suspect to be hydrilla to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 134 Braniff, San Antonio 7S21B. with information on the exact location of the plant's origin.

identification of hydrilla is said Guerra. need portions of the subterranean root system, tubers and some of the branching leaves to accurately distinguish hydrilla from less noxious aquatic Cameron County makes the third confirmed location of hydrilla in Texas. Infestations have been discovered on Lake Livingston, in the San Marcos Fish Hatchery and the San Marcos River. Off On LABOR COMPLETE SEAL JOB REG. NOW ONLY IF YOUR TRANSMISSION IS LEAKING OR SLIPPING, IN SOME CASES, ALL YOU NEED IS A SEAL JOB.

18 95 INSPECT AND ADJUST TRANSMISSION AND FLUID CHANGE1 FOR ONLY $9 75 call for appointment, all work fully guaranteed free towing ATLAS TRANSMISSION NORTHSIDE LOCATION 2806 BIANCO 732-9628 or 732-9301 SOUTHEAST LOCATION .703 S. W.W. WHITE 333-93061 SOUTHSIDi LOCATION 1535 S.W. MILITARY OR. 923-7546; Arnold Hofling of San Antonio killed this 18-pound gobbler just in time for Christmas dinner.

He was hunting on his lease in Medina County, and the gobbler was in a flock of approximately 30 toms. THE. SI SPAY EXPRESSNEWS Outdoor Page 8-S January 5 1975 Our refuges in bad shape WASHINGTON The National Wildlife Refuge System is in bad shape and apparently getting worse, the Wildlife Management Institute reports. A recent letter from Fish and Wildlife Service Director Lynn A. Greenwalt to Senator Lee Metcalf (Mont.) shows that the system has deteriorated considerably since 1972.

More than 92,000 acres were added to the National Wildlife Refuge System in fiscal year 1974. Those purchases, however, were made with receipts from duck stamps sales paid for by sportsmen and wetlands loan funds which are to be repaid by duck stamp money. Development and maintenance of those areas are supposed to be carried out with appropriated general funds. But the administration and the Congress have failed in that responsibility. There is a backlog of $60 million in rehabilitation work needed on refuges.

That is the result of inadequate maintenance funding in past years. The current budget contains only $1,175,000 for such work. At that rate of funding, the service cannot help but fall even further behind in its responsibilities. Proper job letter pointed out that there are too few people available to do a proper job of refuge management. To fully develop each of the 373 refuges now in the system.

Greenwalt said, would require approximately $170 million in development funds. To operate those facilities efficiently would require an additional $34 million and approximately 2,000 man- years of labor. Development of the system to a minimum level that would barely fulfill the purposes for which the refuges were established, Greenwalt said, would require about $60 million in development funds and $12 million in operations and maintenance plus 600 man-years of labor annually. Needs Those estimates apply only to established areas. Needs will increase considerably with the addition of 24.1 million acres now proposed in Alaska and other areas in the lower 48 states.

Greenwalt noted that the Accelerated Wetlands Acquisition Program terminates in fiscal year 1976. He said that $19.1 million of the $105 million approved from that program have not been appropriated. Based on projected figures more than 600,000 acres of wetlands would remain to be acquired after 1976. ADVERTISEMENT MAGIC! a Way to Skyrocket Your Scores! Yes. there's "magic" way to increase your average bowling scores by 30.40,50 or more pins per game' It you ve been bowling in the low 100 you can easily score in the high 100's And then into the 200's! Not once in a while, but every time you bowl! And win more trophies, more side bets than you'va aver won your life! BOWLER'S MAGIC1" la a diacovery that has been in the making for several years It began with research at Harvard University You know how famous Harvard is for research' Well, tffeir scientists know we can perform much better than we do.

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The study shows that 63.2 per cent of those campers responding expect to travel more than 2,000 miles with their camping vehicles, while only 51.6 per cent traveled that far in 1974. While scarcity and high cost of gasoline during the past year were reflected in the length of camping trips 54 per cent of the campers surveyed limited their 1974 camping to weekend trips the survey shows that more campers will plan vacations of a week or more duration this year. Only 49.7 per cent will stick to weekend travel, while the remaining 50.3 per cent say they will most likely take a week or longer on camping trips in 1975. With economy an important consideration in family travel plans, an overwhelming majority of the campers surveyed feel that camping is an economical way to vacation. The following survey results were obtained from KOA campers.

Results indicate more travel more days camping longer camping vacations. 1. Which of the following best describes the type of camping equipment you use? 45.9 per cent Travel Trailer 13.8 Tent Trailer 14.2 Truck Camper 13.1 Tent 10.1 Motorhome 3.0 Van Conversion 2. How many days would you estimate you camped in 1974? 19.8 per cent Less than 7 18.6 7 -14 20.5 15 21 13.7 22 -28 12.2 29 45 15.2 More than 45 days 3. How many days do you estimate you will camp in 1975? 6.0 per cent Less than 7 17.9 7-14 27.4 15-21 16.3 22-28 14.7 29-45 17.9 More than 45 4.

How many miles would you estimate you took your camping equipment in 1974? 29.8 per cent Less than 1,000 18.6 1,001 2,000 20.5 2,001 4,000 18.6 4,001 6,000 7.4 6,001 10,000 3.5 10,001 15,000 1.6 Over 15,000 5. How many miles would you estimate you will take your camping equipment in 1975? 18.8 per cent Less than 1,000 18.0 1,001 2,000 27.6 2,001 4,000 20.4 4,001 6,000 10.0 6.001 10.000 2.0 10,001 15,000 3.2 Over 6. Which of the following camping trips did you take in 1974? 30.4 per cent Weekend trip within 100 miles of your home 23.6 Weekend trip outside 100 miles of your home 25.9 Vacation (one or two weeks) 20.2 Vacation (more than two weeks) 7. Which of the following camping trips will you most likely take in 1975? 27.6 per cent Weekend trip within 100 miles of your home 22.2 Weekend trip outside 100 miles of your home 24.6 Vacation (one or two weeks) 25.7 Vacation More than two weeks) 8. Do you consider camping as an economical way to vacation? Yes 96.3 per cent No 3.7 per cent OUTDOOR Times Tides Jan.

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